Is there anything more tedious than "Where were you on 9/11?" Reddit posts (hexbear.net)

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holy shit these are the same thousands of complete nothing stories every single time, posted as if they were some profound insights.

"I was in first period. Then, the teacher said our nation was under attack. Then I learned that planes hit the World Trade Center. Then I went home."

Or, the West Coast version:

"I woke up and turned on the TV. The second plane had already hit. I watched the events unfold on the TV."

jfc at this point I am convinced Americans are pathological narcissists

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[-] TrudeauCastroson@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

It was probably traumatizing for random Americans because they didn't expect anything like that to happen to them.

Something happening over there is different than it happening to the most powerful country on earth™️.

Same reason people care especially about the Ukraine war us-foreign-policy . Same reason amber alerts for little white girls get reported on more than indigenous women going missing.

It'd be less traumatic if there wasn't a consent manufacturing machine for war, and if it was instead just an airline malfunction or something.

[-] AMBER_BOT@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

Amber.

[-] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

It was probably traumatizing for random Americans because they didn't expect anything like that to happen to them.

It's entirely this. I watched it on TV when I got home from school (UK) and my thoughts were just "yeah? They've been bombing the world for years, it was bound to happen sooner or later."